Why will you use language that is calculated to alienate from me the affections of a brother and sister whom I love with so much tenderness?
I trust you understand me when I tell you now that I identify myself with their feelings and objects, and that no sordid expectation of your property shall ever induce me to take up your quarrel or separate myself from them.

Dispose of your property as you wish; I for one shall not earn it by sacrificing the best affections of the heart, nor by becoming a slave to such a violent and indefensible temper as yours.

As for me, I shall not stand in need of your property--I will have enough of my own." They looked closely at each other; but that look was sufficient.

The cunning mother thoroughly understood the freemason glance of his eye, and exclaimed,-- "Well, I see I am abandoned by all my children; but I will endeavor to bear it.

I now leave you to yourselves--to meditate and put in practice whatever plot you please against my happiness.